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Burma VJ | Peabody Award Winner 2010

In the late summer and fall of 2007, great throngs of Burmese citizens, following the lead of Buddhist monks, began peaceful street protests of the ruling military junta. So repressive was the regime that the outside world only came to know of the so-called “Saffron Revolution” by way of the Democratic Voice of Burma. The brigade of volunteer, underground reporters filmed the protests — and the government’s eventual, brutal crackdown — with small video cameras and smuggled the footage by courier and the Internet to Norway. Supporters there supplied footage to CNN, the BBC and other news organizations and, via satellite, beamed it back to Burma as well. Burma VJ is a remarkable, visceral account of those months of rising hope and of the video journalists (VJs) who risked arrest and torture to insure that the wider world would know.

Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/burma-vj

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Civilisation | Peabody Award Winner 1970

At this confusing moment in our history when so much television is devoted to hawking Man’s failures, viewers on both sides of the Atlantic have been refreshed by a gloriously intelligent celebration of Man’s accomplishments in the BBC series, Civilisation, which was written and narrated with wit, style, and passion by Kenneth Clark. His cameras rested leisurely and lovingly on their subjects; the musical background was an enhancement rather than a distraction; and Lord Clark’s keen sense of humor and history was unfailing in this fascinating adventure.

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Elizabeth McKay Accepting the 2005 Peabody Award for “BBC DoNation Season”

A more focused and comprehensive public-service effort than BBC DoNation Season is hard to imagine. Responding to a critical shortage of organ donors in the UK, where 400 people die each year awaiting a transplant, the BBC committed resources to a week-long awareness-heightening campaign that harnessed its television, radio, online, and interactive elements. Producers John Douglas, Susie Donaldson, and Claire Faragher, working under executive producer Edwina Vardey (Factual and Learning), created Life on the List, a week-long series of five half-hour documentaries that brought viewers into the daily dramas of men, women, and children hanging on to life while waiting for a new heart, kidney, or lung. The BBC estimates that the campaign was responsible for adding 100,000 names to the organ-donor registers and, according to its follow-up surveys, instigating discussions of organ-donation wishes among 5 million people.

Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/bbc-donation-season

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Jon Plowman Accepting the 2003 Peabody Award for “The Office”

With no predictable jokes, no easy punch lines, no laugh track, and no known stars, The Office still manages to make audiences laugh out loud for thirty minutes at a time. Yet its quirky oh-so-real characters and situations set in an oh-so-ordinary British business office are sometimes as poignant as they are comic. Shot in “mockumentary” style, this skewed glimpse into office politics and mundane workday routines rings true for anyone who has spent time in an office. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, who write and direct the show, have created an instant international sensation that takes half-hour television comedy into welcome new realms.

Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/the-office

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